Great recipe to use as a guide/base. Perfect if you have never made a stove top pot roast before. As you see in the xomments there are many additiins you can make. I use demi glace, dried shitake mushroom powder from Fogwood Foods, fresh thyme, fresh basil, egyptian dried basil, vidalia onions and I roast my yukon potatoes first then add at the end. Also, i use local butter and purple moon merlot in the beginning. Killer dish no matter how you do it!